My list:
Too soon:
- The OA
- Firefly
- Caprica (it was just starting to get interesting)
- Stargate Universe
- Jericho
- Altered Carbon
Too long:
- Game of thrones
- Dexter
- Lost
- Arrested development (they made a huge mistake bringing it back)
buzziebee
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Something with enough context to write sensible test cases for a large codebase. It would be great if you could write test cases for a couple of domains, then ask it to write cases for a third domain following the same general style as the first. It would ideally have a conversation about what things to mock/stub and what things to keep.
I personally think 5 years isn't enough time to get to that point with something that works really well. It's tricky enough to get a junior up to speed with doing it sensibly, but cutting down on the time it takes to build a good test suite would mean we Devs can spend a lot more time on features and improvements.
Yeah it's maddening. Just a short couple of minute segment even would have helped massively. On the other hand they'd probably butcher that too.
Here's the "story so far" segment from halo CE which is pretty succinct. I still remember being excited reading it as a kid. You could cut a bunch of stuff out to do a "show don't tell" approach in some episodes, but you can probably imagine how great a sequence it would be showing humans spreading out across our sector of the galaxy, then shots of humans getting stomped by the covenant, then cut to the present day.
The year is 2552. Planet Earth still exists, but overpopulation has forced many of her former residents to colonize other worlds. Faster-than-light travel is now a reality, and Earth’s unified government, through the United Nations Space Command, has put its full weight behind the colonization effort; millions of humans now live on habitable planets in other solar systems. A keystone of humanity’s colonization efforts is the planet Reach, an interstellar naval yard that builds colony ships for civilians and warships for the UNSC’s armed forces. Conveniently close to Earth, Reach is also a hub of scientific and military activity.
Thirty-two years ago, contact with the outer colony Harvest was lost. A battlegroup sent to investigate was almost completely destroyed; only one badly damaged ship returned to Reach. Its crew told of a seemingly unstoppable alien warship that had effortlessly annihilated their forces.
This was humankind’s first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon humanity with gruesome diligence.
After a series of crushing defeats and obliterated colonies, UNSC Admiral Preston Cole established the Cole Protocol: no vessel may inadvertently lead the Covenant to Earth. When forced to withdraw, ships must avoid Earth-bound vectors—even if that means jumping without proper navigational calculations. Vessels in danger of capture must self-destruct.
On Reach, a secret military project to create cyborg super-soldiers takes on newfound importance. The soldiers of the SPARTAN-II project rack up an impressive record against the Covenant in test deployments, but there are too few of them to turn the tide of the war.
Existing SPARTAN-II soldiers are recalled to Reach for further augmentation. The plan: board a Covenant vessel with the improved SPARTAN-IIs and learn the location of the Covenant home world. Two days before the mission begins, Covenant forces strike Reach and annihilate the colony. The Covenant are now on Earth’s doorstep. One ship, the Pillar of Autumn, escapes with the last SPARTAN-II and makes a blind jump into deep space, hoping to lead the Covenant away from Earth.
After turning off season 1 in disgust when it aired I thought I'd give season 2 a go. I watched season 1 to catch up and the disgust returned.
Season 2 is markedly improved over season 1, and feels a bit like a reset, but it does still have that taint attached to it. As I was watching S2E1 I realised there's not really anything from season 1 worth preserving, you could just start the show off here in S2 and not much would be missed.
The show still hasn't effectively communicated the universe it's set in at all. There's no info on the scale of the human or covenant empires. There's no info on how long the war has been fought or how big a disadvantage the humans are in. There's almost no info on the navy, and any halo fans know that the war was being lost in space, not on the ground. At this point in the timeline tens of billions are dead. Hope should be lost, except for the myth of the Spartans. Everyone's just carrying on as if the war isn't a big deal or existential threat.
Halo is also meant to be a military sci-fi/space opera. But the show still spends way too long on boring interpersonal drama and people whining and feeling sorry for themselves. I'm pissed about the treatment of the marines too. The marines are supposed to be the "heart" of halo, these plucky underdogs standing and fighting against the genocidal aliens but they are always portrayed as unsympathetic jackbooted thugs. Crying about how cruel it was that the Spartans were kidnapped as kids is one of the worst things 343 have done to halo and it's even more egregious in this show.
Ultimately they've created a bit of a mess. Theres a load of really weird messaging about how humanity aren't worth saving, how terrorists and pirates are innocent "freedom fighters", where our heroes are new to having emotions and cry about everything, and where the soldiers supposedly defending humanity are evil fascist stormtroopers.
The biggest flaw though is they've created a world with unclear stakes and unclear objectives. I'm watching an interpersonal drama with a few CGI sequences, rather than a military sci fi space opera.
'Lemmy users SLAMS Labour over "ANTISEMETIC and RACIST" comments by Streeting'.
Whack in a load of chat gpt generated crap defining racism and the labour party, then at the end after all the adverts put a screenshot of the post you replied to. Journalism in 2024.
HDR support is supposedly fixed on kde and should be getting fixed in most other distros soon supposedly.
Unity worked for me on pop os after some fiddling and installing of dependencies, but it didn't fully work. There was a bunch of tools (like animation keyframes) which just didn't display correctly for me though. Checking out the source code of one the util did a check to see whether it was running on windows or Mac, then exited if it wasn't either of those. Would be good to run it via proton if possible so we get full support without the Devs needing to write tons of code to support a small percentage of users. That experience is pretty common when running Linux as your main, but the other benefits make up for it.
The materials to make batteries aren't readily available in the quantities needed to add grid scale storage to all countries and replace all global ICE vehicles. Hydrogen is also ideal for countries like Japan where their grid isn't all connected (it's loads of small grids) and can't handle either the increased load from charging vehicles, or transport the energy from productive renewables areas to non productive renewables areas.
Like with most energy tech, we should be investing in it all so we have a diverse mix of solutions.
The jury system is bullshit and needs to go.
Scotland were robbed there. That on field decision was a tough call but imo should have been a try after seeing it clearly move well away from the foot and to the ground on the tmo.
Yeah there were multiple times when the allies could have pushed Germany over before they started steamrolling. When they remilitarised the Rhineland, as you said when they occupied the Sudetenland, and even when they invaded Poland.
France started pushing into Germany once war was first declared and there was basically nothing in front of them. Most of the tanks etc were in Poland. If they had continued pushing then it might have all ended there. Instead they pulled back to the Maginot line and the rest is history.
Maybe inclusiveness wasn't the right word to use, but your second and third paragraphs are exactly what I meant. It's because we want to make sure everyone's voices are hard and ideas are considered that movements end up standing for everything and nothing at the same time. To me creating that space and opportunity for all ideas and people is inclusivity, which is a great thing overall but can make affecting change difficult when your opposition all fall into line behind "strong" leaders.
Yeah I didn't rate him at all either, and it definitely started off a lot slower, but by the end I was properly into the story of season 2. It's a really shame as like you said season 1 was incredible, they just didn't have the same budget for S2. I would have liked to see more as we would have had a different actor and it never really got finished.